The Best Easy Scone Recipe
/I actually don’t like scones. At least I don’t like any store bought or bakery scones that I’ve ever tried. They are all dry and crumbly and I don’t really get the point of them. But certain members of my family like them, so I try to find ways to cook things at home that they like.
I’ve tried a number of scone recipes over the decades that seemed to me basically like the crumbly bakery scones I don’t like - but then I found this recipe. These are not your crumbly commercial scones! They are really buttery, and flakey, and moist. They are more like a sweet buttery biscuit than a scone really, and I think they are just right.
These are huge hit with my family. For years I made them for Christmas morning, you can easily make the dough ahead of time and refrigerate or freeze, and then bake them when you are ready for a fresh warm treat. I had actually forgotten about this recipe for a few years, until a child recently asked me if we could make some vanilla scones like the ones she loves at Starbucks.
Scroll down for the recipe. This is my adaptation from a decades old bed & breakfast cookbook that I acquired somewhere along the line.
Below is the recipe. If you click the image you will get a printable version.
Starbucks Petite Vanilla Scone copycat
One of my kids loves the little vanilla scones that you can get at Starbucks. They are mini scones with a nice vanilla bean icing.
You can copycat those using this recipe!
We make a vanilla version of these scones without any nuts or fruit, and divide the dough into 8 pieces instead of four so that they nice and small.
Roll each piece out into a circle and cut into wedges for the petite scone size.
They’ll take a few minutes less to bake.
Then scrape a vanilla bean into a simple icing to drizzle over the top. Just like the ones at Starbucks, only fresher. My kids love them this way.